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Featured Quilt - Sticks & Stones Make Loving Homes
My Stick Family by Jody Taylor from QuiltCon 2023 shows a family with a lot of heart (even if they are just made of sticks). Jody says, "When my kids were young, I was a work-at-home mom so I was fortunate enough to be able to drive them to school and pick them up every day. During our commute, we would always see stick family decals on the windshields of other people's cars and we would have fun speculating about their stories. We never had a windshield decal for privacy and security reasons, but now, we have our very own stick family quilt! This quilt brings me joy and reminds me of happy family memories from the past. P.S. Check out my husband's legs. Tee hee! The "My
Stick Family" quilt is part of my foundation paper piecing pattern design journey. @lovelanguagequilts"
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Explore Nature at The National Quilt Museum |
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From Leaves and Trees, to Flowers and Bees
Come visit the National Quilt Museum and explore quilts inspired
by nature as part of their exhibit, Flora, Fauna and Paisaje / Landscape, a collaborative show between quilters from Chile Quilting and TASO (Textile Artists of Southeastern Ohio). You'll see quilts just like Pilar Donoso's Calas de Valdivia/ Calla Lilies from Valdivia, which showcases nature on an international scale.
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Watch as Yulia Brodskaya Quills (not Quilts) with Paper
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What is Quilling?
From artyulia: "Renowned paper artist Yulia Brodskaya pushes the boundaries of the centuries-old craft known as paper Quilling.
Originally trained as a graphic designer and illustrator, her first paper artworks were born out of a desire to create self-promotional work to impress potential design clients. But by spelling her name ‘YULIA’ in strips of paper, she had unknowingly entered the world of this centuries-old paper craft and completely reinvented it: thanks to a decade of Yulia’ s paper art practice, Quilling is enjoying a modern revival."
(Photo from www.artyulia.co.uk/)
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WeAllSew Tutorial: How To Make A Plastic Bag Holder
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It's A Bag To Hold Your (Plastic) Bags
What do you do with your plastic shopping bags? You want to do your
part to better the world and not just throw them away, right? So you choose to recycle and reuse them for grocery shopping and around the house. But what do you do when those bags start to accumulate? Emily Hall at WeAllSew has the tutorial just for you to make a Plastic Bag Holder to store them efficiently and with a decorative flair.
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In The Store - Quiltessentials Precuts
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From the Quiltessentials Delight Collection by Jacqueline de Jonge
These beautifully colorful
batik Quiltessentials Precuts from Anthology Fabrics come in a rainbow of colors, including Ocean (above left), Meadow (center), and Sunset (above right). We created these beautiful bundles in our fabric room, so you won't find them anywhere else!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Blue and White All Over
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"Ao To Shiro Blue And White" by David Owen Hastings
Ao To Shiro Blue And
White shows off David's love of Japan. David dyed all of the blue and white fabric used in the quilt in Japan, and while over there took a workshop in Shibori, which is a fabric dyeing style closely associated with the country. Once home, David wanted to pay homage to this great fabric, so he developed three block designs based on origami. When you unfold a piece of origami, there is all this linework showing off on the piece of paper. David looked to those lines for his block designs in this quilt.
See more of David's quilts in Paper Study with a Maquette and Abstract Quilt Designs with David Owen Hastings | Quilt Designs with Connie Fanders.
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